Birthday vegetables

[noahgibbs]

I'll just quote the person who gave me the gift of a produce subscription:

Then we got down to the business of deciding what to make for dinner out of our goodies :-) There were 3 sunburst squash, some butter lettuce, spinach, cherry tomatoes, celery, chard, parsley, an eggplant, strawberries, nectarines, peaches, and apricots. The squash got hollowed out and stuffed with some sauteed spinach, mixed with Gruyere and an egg, then baked. It was divine. The butter lettuce, some more of the spinach, lots of the tomatoes, feta, and some Kalamata olives became an awesome salad with olive oil and sweet balsamic vinegar. Then for dessert we had the strawberries with vanilla ice cream. Yum!

What she said. I don't cook enough, so getting incredible-quality organic produce delivered every couple of weeks should be very good for my eating habits. Now I need to decide what to do with the remaining vegetables. So far I'm leaning toward a minestre, more greek salad, a tempura fry-up, and then eating the last of the fruit by itself.

And I'm finally getting to use some lovely farmer's-market olive oil and balsamic vinegar that I got awhile back. I don't make salads nearly often enough so having gourmet oil and vinegar isn't usually a big deal for me. I'm glad to have it now, though :-)

Comments

[thwomp.livejournal.com]

In general, I *love* my organic vegetable subscription. Last year, I got a medium weekly, which really was too many vegetables for the two of us. Earlier in the season, we got a ton of greens and lettuces. Get ready for lots of salads, and learn to like wilted sesame greens, would be my advice.

Now I want wilted spinach.

Yum. Veggies.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

We used up most (all? I forget) of the spinach in the salad and stuffed squash, but it was really good.

Don't think we got any sesame greens this time around, just lettuce, spinach and chard. The lettuce was *huge*, we barely took a dent out of it.

[lusty.livejournal.com]

Probably about 2/3 of the spinach. As for "sesame greens", I think she meant saute the greens with olive oil and sesame seeds.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Neat. If you used sesame oil instead of olive oil you'd have something very much like an oshitashi. Mmm...

[thwomp.livejournal.com]

Yup, pretty much. I fry mine quickly in sesame oil, mist with bragg's or dribble with tamari and toss in some toasted sesame seeds towards the end. It's the easiest tastiest thing I've ever experienced having to do with spinach.

[safya.livejournal.com]

what about the millenium salad? fresh spinach, avocado and grapefruit slices, red onion, miso dressing and chili toasted almonds...mmmmm
i think i missed the deadline for vegetable subscriptions but i guess that's ok, i'll just have to buy mine at the coop

[stephtoth.livejournal.com]

THAT!! I've been craving that salad ever since we had it at debbies that one night!
Do you have the recipe for that miso dressing? and how about chili toasted almonds? a recipe for the whole salad would be good I guess :)

[safya.livejournal.com]

nope, no recipes, but guess who has them-- thwomp and queendeb (who has my millenium cookbook at the moment)

i can tell you about some of it though. the almonds you cover with lime juice and chili powder to taste, and then toast them. the onion slices you cover with lime juice and salt. the dressing is super extra complicated but involves grapefruit juice, miso, garlic and probably lots of other stuff.